The sun is considered very important for us humans and even for other living things. It provides us light to brighten the Earth and heat to keep us warm during the day. The energy produced by the sun is what we call the solar energy. This energy is available everywhere we are and because of technology, we learned that there is much more benefits that we can get from solar power. The sun sends out enormous amount of energy and the energy it radiates in a second is already equivalent to the power people used ever since. This is how great power the sun has.

In the ancient times, the sun is used to generate heat that they use for cooking and even at present on our everyday living we use sun to dry our clothes, warm our body and most of all generate power to make our equipments at home work and lighten our homes. This is where solar energy comes in. This type of energy is now utilized by homeowners to generate their own electricity at home. This makes them independent from power electric companies so they don’t have to pay huge monthly electricity bills. Gathering solar power is done by installing solar panels on top of the roof or using solar thermal collectors. These solar panels gather power from the sun and this solar energy can produce electricity that one can use at home.

There are two types of solar techniques: the active and the passive. Active techniques include installation of solar panels while passive techniques include positioning a house or building towards the sun, choosing materials with high thermal mass or creating a space where air can circulate. Solar energy is now becoming popular because of the great advantages that users can get from it. It is one of the renewable sources of energy that is clean, safe to use and very efficient. You can even store the energy in storage batteries then use it at night. Researches are continuously performed to show the other benefits and applications we can use solar energy. In no time, a lot of people will be convinced of the practicality and many advantages solar energy provides.

Perhaps one will be able to grasp the real meaning of poverty when one struggles real hard to have a miserable meal in twenty-four hours. Poverty and hunger are cousins; simply because the former is tied to the latter. For instance, if you are putting on a suit, or a complete traditional attire of any kind, you will naturally look rotund in your dress, you may neither understand what poverty entails, nor can you have a true feeling of poverty. If you have some good shirts and pairs of trousers; never mind if they are all casual wears. The fact is if you can from one dress, change into another and these are all you can boast of, thank your star because you are not really poor.

A person begins to have a true feeling of what poverty means when, apart from the tattered clothes on his body, he does not have any other, not even a motley shirt to keep away the cold at night. “Look at these little children looking like cartoons with their parents looking hopeless. They have nothing to eat for the mean time, no good shelter over their heads, talk more of giving the children a sound education. Oh! What a hopeless life to live in”. That is the voice of a man journeying through a settlement of the poor.

Furthermore, let us face it straight, the developing countries are majorly identified with poverty on a large scale. Though there are poor people in America too, the difference cannot still be compared with some states, most especially in Africa. You will hitch up with me that anyone who has never slept outside in the open cannot appreciate the harsh realities of homelessness; yet that is what abject poverty is all about. He who can lay claim to a house, however humble, or can afford to rent a flat or a room in a town or city without the landlord troubles cannot honestly claim to be poor.

One of the major effects of poverty is sickness and mortality. A poor person is more prone to a poor health. In the society today, things are not done free. No matter what, after every treatment in hospital money is required; now tell me where you want paupers to get such money; when they cannot afford a meal a day. This often leads to the breeding of immoral people who will do anything to achieve their aim in life either getting into armed robbery or prostitution.